Anders Behring Breivik, Isn't this a single event? Options

[Kelly Martin]

There's already an article Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged shooter in that Norwegian terrorist thing that's going on today. (There's an article for that too: 2011 Norway attacks.)

Typical Wikipediot nonsense, of course, but I heard about the article existing from Google Plus, so I just had to open a thread here.

[Silver seren]

Yeah, the thing is, while it may be a bit US-centric for me to say this, events that happen in or to the US tend to get more coverage. In general, that seems to be true.

And, for once, we're getting good coverage about a person that is not happening in the US and...Kohser is complaining about the coverage existing. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)

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[Kevin]

Yeah, the thing is, while it may be a bit US-centric for me to say this, events that happen in or to the US tend to get more coverage. In general, that seems to be true.

And, for once, we're getting good coverage about a person that is not happening in the US and...Kohser is complaining about the coverage existing. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)

There is a vast difference between good coverage and what is produced by the content driven mass media. Mass media has a need to produce more and more content, in many cases with little regard to actual newsworthiness. An encyclopedia should record what is historically significant. That you cannot tell the difference is one of your great failings.

[SB_Johnny]

Yeah, the thing is, while it may be a bit US-centric for me to say this, events that happen in or to the US tend to get more coverage. In general, that seems to be true.

And, for once, we're getting good coverage about a person that is not happening in the US and...Kohser is complaining about the coverage existing. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)

There is a vast difference between good coverage and what is produced by the content driven mass media. Mass media has a need to produce more and more content, in many cases with little regard to actual newsworthiness. An encyclopedia should record what is historically significant. That you cannot tell the difference is one of your great failings.

If it weren't for the whole "BLP as slander/attack/agenda-tool/vandalism-target" issue, it would probably be fine to just let these things get deleted down the road a bit when history gives a bit of perspective.